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Artheris offered me small parts with the Sacramento Star Stock, playing fourteen weeks and twenty plays, this winter, but I thought of getting up there, and having to hunt up a boarding-house " Her voice sank indifferently. "I don't believe I'd take anything less than ingenue," she added presently. "Florence Pitt played ingenue in stock when she was only fifteen!"
Artheris," beamed the intruder, "but could I have a look at the stage? Far be it from me to interrupt or any little thing like that," he continued easily, "but my Mother'd have me dragged out and shot if I came home without seeing it!" "Come in, come in, Mr. Hazzard," said Artheris cordially; "you're just the man we want to see! Hazzard. Mr.
Julia stretched out her little feet before her, shrugged, and brought an indifferent eye to bear upon the manager. "What's there in it?" she asked. "Well, now, THAT you'd have to settle with them," smiled Mr. Artheris. "Oh, rot!" said Connie cheerfully. "YOU manage that for her; what does SHE know? Go on!" "But, my dear young lady, I have nothing to do with it!" the man protested.
"Sign up?" asked Emeline languidly. And two or three strangers, obviously impressed by the term, waited for the answer. "Oh, I guess I'll do it to please Artheris!" Julia said. The girl was fairly aglow to-night, palpitating and thrilling with youth and the joy of life.
The girls shouted, and Julia grew still more red. "Never mind, baby love!" said the older woman soothingly. "It's just Aunt Min's nonsense! Say, but listen, Julia!" Her tone grew suddenly intense. "I meant to ask you something listen. Say, no fooling, Artheris wants to know if you would take a job." "Twenty a week, and twenty towns a month," Julia said, still ruffled. "No, I would not!"
Julia had been fully determined, when she got home, to abandon the amateur company, to fail them at the very hour of their performance, but a casual word from Connie had caused her to change her mind. "Don't you be a fool and get in Dutch with Artheris!" Connie had said, and upon sober reflection Julia had found the advice good. But she got no beauty sleep that night.
High up in the topmost gallery some one was experimenting with the calcium machine; a fan of light occasionally swept the house, or a man's profile was silhouetted against a sputter of blue flame. Artheris and young Hazzard paced the stage, consulted, and disagreed. Connie practised a fancy step in a wide circle, her skirt caught up, her face quite free of self-consciousness.
I suppose I could keep at Artheris for an engagement he's awfully decent but now that Rose and Connie have gone, I have to go round alone, and it isn't that I'm afraid of anything, but I simply don't seem to care any more! I don't believe I want to be an actress.
"The part of of a splendid part, that of the Sergeant," said Artheris cheerfully. "Yes, I know that part," Connie said grimly. "The idea is to have Miss Julie here understudy all the parts," said the manager quickly. "These amateurs are very apt to disappoint, do you see? They feel that there would be a sense of security in having a professional right there to fill in a gap."
Tarbury expressed the same incredulity as she said benevolently: "What a pipe dream, Em she's lucky if she gets ten!" "Ten!" squeaked Julia's mother, but Julia silenced her by saying carelessly: "I'll tell you what, Aunt Min. If Con and I get through in time we'll go in and see Artheris to-day. I'd do it for twenty-five " "You would not!" said her mother. "Well, you might get twenty-five," Mrs.
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